Especially after the second half of the 90s, the Internet became widespread, and the developments in computer and software technologies were accepted as the beginning of a new era with the introduction of Industry 4.0 in 2011. The aviation industry, which has used edge technologies the most since World War II, is experiencing a significant transformation with Industry 4.0 technologies. Automati…
In June 1986, the ICAO Air Transport Committee decided that a manual on airport economics should be developed; consequently, the first edition of the Airport Economics Manual (Doc 9562) was released in 1991. In April 2001, the Air Transport Committee decided that the Airport Economics Manual should be revised as a follow-up to the Conference on the Economics of Airports and Air Navigation Servi…
There are so many people who helped me along the lonely writer’s path. The story was put to page in pilot quarters all over Alaska, in stark places like Nome, Kotzebue, St. Mary’s, Bethel, and Barrow. The guys and gals I flew with read portions, knowing I could fly, but probably wondered if I could write. Here is my proof and I thank all my friends who read my …
Dr. Prather’s objective in all of his educational development and presentations is to provide airport professionals with practical, industry-focused information. You will find this as the baseline throughout all chapters of Airport Management . This textbook covers the exciting areas that other airport professionals and I are involved with on a daily basis, including airport pl…
This textbook is about aviation operations: the organizations and infrastructure in which commercial aircraft operate between airports, providing connections to society with the aim to earn profits. It is about rules, markets, suppliers, airports, airlines, money, people, politics and the aircraft itself. Aviation operations is a sector in which commercial aircraft are operated, deployed, assig…
The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) took up this topic in the Challenges of Growth project and concluded that À depending on scenario assumptions À the European network will be unable to accommodate nearly two million flights in the year 2035 due to airport capacity constraints. The institutional interest in the capacity issue concurred w…
In addition to updating with incident descriptions and references from mostly the last 10 years, this version is different in two major ways. First, I have reorganized the writing into seven main sections (including a definitive introduction and conclusion containing new material) rather than two parts (A and B). While reading the fifth edition in 2017 when I began the revisio…
The crucial need for aviation development was emphasized again by ICAO’s third annual World Aviation Forum in November 2017, due to its overall positive impact and economic benefits. The industry’s success in terms of healthy growth rates, however, is a burden at the same time. Addressing the resulting air navigation and airport infrastructure requirements enta…
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The GARS workshops and the Hamburg Aviation Conference, which is the predecessor of the European Aviation Conference, created a network of academics, regulators, industry managers and consultants who were fascinated by aviation and who shared a desire for a forum that would allow serious discussions of airport issues. This group further expanded, which explains why our list of acknowledgements …